Fondation CRÉSUS

Founded in 2008, Fondation CRÉSUS is a non-profit network based in Strasbourg, France working on poverty & hunger, education, justice & legal aid.

Fondation CRÉSUS is a French association network, founded in 2008, that works to prevent over-indebtedness and financial exclusion. It is made up of 27 independent associations operating from 225 local reception points across France. Its services include personalised budget support and mediation for people in financial difficulty, referred by partner institutions, with more than 75,000 households and entrepreneurs supported since 2008. It also runs financial education workshops and training, awareness and prevention campaigns, a research unit that studies the outcomes of inclusion strategies, and the Maison CRÉSUS, a space dedicated to financial inclusion for professionals and entrepreneurs in economic fragility. Its programmes include the Dilemme educational programme, the Budget Grande Vitesse app and the supported personal microcredit (MCPA). The organisation is recognised as a public-interest network and works with institutional, associative and economic partners.